HOW is the science of mechanics to be taught to medical students who have to “get up” natural philosophy in three months? If a teacher, confronted with such a problem, took refuge in sheer ...

Isaac Newton made statements in his Laws of Motion about the effect of balanced and unbalanced forces. Newton's First Law is concerned with balanced forces. It states that if a body is at rest and ...

So, what are forces? Well forces cause things to change, and a beautiful example of that is Newton's first law of motion. It says that things stay still or carry on moving at a constant speed in a ...

Considered one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, Newton devoted his life to the study of the natural world, discovering the laws of gravity and motion, analyzing light, and developing the ...

which said that objects only moved if an external force drove that motion. Newton was also the first to understand the rainbow, and to refract white light with a prism into its component colours ...